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Ragnar Lodbrok ("Ragnar hairy-breeches") (Old Norse: Ragnarr loðbrók), [a] according to legends, [2] was a Viking hero and a Swedish and Danish king. [ 3 ] He is known from Old Norse poetry of the Viking Age , Icelandic sagas , and near-contemporary chronicles.
The historical invasion of Northumbria in 866 occurred in retaliation for Ragnar's execution, according to Ragnarssona þáttr (The Tale of Ragnar's Sons). While Norse sources claim that Ragnar's sons tortured Ælla to death by the method of the blood eagle, Anglo-Saxon accounts maintain that he died in battle at York on 21 March 867.
According to the Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Ivar's bonelessness was the result of a curse. His mother, Aslaug, Ragnar's third wife was described as a völva, a seer or clairvoyant. Aslaug suggested that she and her husband wait for three nights before consummating their marriage after a long separation while he was in England raiding.
Although many Vikings had died in the plague during the siege of Paris, Ragnar lived to return home to King Horik. According to a story originating from a member of Cobbo's embassy, Ragnar, having attacked the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés , then in the outskirts of medieval Paris and which Cobbo later visited, attributed the plague to the ...
The Hervarar saga from the 13th century tells that Eysteinn Beli was killed by Björn and his brothers as told in Ragnar Lodbrok's saga, and they conquered all of Sweden. When Ragnar died Björn Ironside inherited Sweden. He had two sons, Refil and Erik Björnsson, who became the next king of Sweden. [4]
According to this text, Ubba was the son of Ragnar Lodbrok and an unnamed daughter of a certain Hesbernus. [345] Gesta Danorum does not associate Ubba with Anglo-Saxon England in any way. [ 346 ] [ note 40 ] According to the 13th- or 14th-century Ragnarssona þáttr , a source that forms part of the West Scandinavian tradition, Ivar had two ...
Ragnar Lodbrok during his presentation of Krákumál. Krákumál or the Lay of Kraka is a skaldic poem, consisting of a monologue in which Ragnar Lodbrok is dying in Ælla's snake pit and looks back at a life full of heroic deeds.
According to Ragnar Lothbrok's saga, while Sigurd was just a boy, his half-brothers Eric and Agnar were killed by Swedish king Eysteinn Beli (also known as Östen). When Áslaug heard the news of Eric and Agnar's death, even though she was not their mother, she cried blood and asked the other sons of Ragnar to avenge their dead brothers.